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  • Texas leads U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions

    01/12/2012 6:44:06 AM PST · by smokingfrog · 40 replies
    chron.com ^ | 11 Jan 2012 | Matthew Tresaugue
    As the nation's light switch and gas pump, Texas releases far more greenhouse gases into the air than any other state, according to federal data released Wednesday. Texas' coal-fired power plants and oil refineries generated 294 million tons of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in 2010, more than the next two states - Pennsylvania and Florida - combined, the data shows. The Environmental Protection Agency released the data by industrial facility for the first time as part of a broader effort to reduce emissions linked to global warming. The agency collected data from more than 6,700 industrial facilities that...
  • Climate Change: Rapid Spike in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Shocks Researchers

    11/04/2011 2:54:15 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 38 replies
    Der Spiegel ^ | 11/04/2011 | Gerald Traufetter and Christian Schwägerl
    International attempts at climate regulation have failed on a number of levels. With CO2 emissions rising much more than predicted between 2009 and 2010, the goal of capping global warming at a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius now seems elusive. But political interest in changing course has waned. … …(T)he widespread indifference stands in disturbing contrast to the grim facts. According to the latest calculations of the US Department of Energy, CO2 emissions are rising sharply. Some 512 million more tons of greenhouse gases were emitted from smoke stacks, exhaust pipes and agricultural land. "That means we're beyond the scenarios...
  • California's Economic Suicide

    10/25/2011 4:24:06 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 30 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 25, 2011 | Editor
    The Weather: Regulations finalized by the California Air Resources Board establish the nation's first state-run cap-and-trade regime. Despite Solyndra, the state will gather solar panels while it may. The 262 pages of regulations implementing California's 2006 global warming legislation, Assembly Bill 32, approved by CARB last Thursday, will probably reduce employment more than it reduces emissions. The only thing it will cap is economic growth by bleeding a patient that is already hemorrhaging red ink. Signed into law in 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the cap-and-trade regulations are intended to force California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels...
  • Carbon dioxide blamed for Pooler McDonald's death (followup as to the cause of death)

    09/15/2011 12:18:35 AM PDT · by rawhide · 19 replies
    savannahnow.com ^ | 9-15-11 | Constance Cooper
    Carbon dioxide leaking into the walls of a Pooler McDonald’s caused an 80-year-old woman to die last week, investigators have found. It’s the third time in six years carbon dioxide sickened people at a U.S. McDonald’s. Pooler police chief Mark Revenew said Anne Felton of Ponte Vedra, Fla., died of asphyxiation after carbon dioxide, used to make the restaurant’s sodas fizzy, leaked into the women’s bathroom of the McDonald’s on Sept. 7. Revenew said a line used to funnel excess carbon dioxide out of the restaurant got disconnected. The gas, which is kept in tanks in a back room of...
  • Australia to tax nation's worst polluters

    07/16/2011 10:53:11 AM PDT · by America_Right · 4 replies
    Yahoo News/Associated Press ^ | July 10th, 2011 | Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press
    SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia will force its 500 worst polluters to pay 23 Australian dollars ($25) for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit, with the government promising to compensate households hit with higher power bills under a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions unveiled Sunday. Prime Minister Julia Gillard sought to reassure wary Australians that the deeply unpopular carbon tax will only cause a minority of households to pay more and insisted it is critical to helping the country lower its massive carbon emissions. Australia is one of the world's worst greenhouse gas polluters, due to its heavy reliance...
  • Coal Stops Global Warming?

    07/06/2011 4:47:13 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | July 6, 2011 | Staff
    Weather Science: Climate alarmists are now explaining away their failed predictions by claiming China's power plants emit sulfur dioxide that cancels out carbon dioxide emissions. So should we burn more coal? Among the emails unearthed during ClimateGate, when scientists working at or with Britain's Climate Research Unit conspired to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, is one from Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to Michael Mann, inventor of the now-discredited "hockey stick" graph that purported to show sudden and dangerous man-induced temperature rise. Trenberth says: "Well, I have my own article on where the heck is...
  • Humans Spew More Carbon Dioxide than All of Earth's Volcanoes

    06/14/2011 1:33:54 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 71 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6/14/11 | Stephanie Pappas - LiveScience
    Explosive volcanic eruptions might be attention grabbing, but a new review of research finds that their environmental impact pales in comparison to human activities. According to the research, humans put out the same amount of carbon dioxide in three to five days that all of the volcanoes on Earth put out in one year. "Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions dwarf global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions," study researcher Terrance Gerlach, of the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a statement. Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. Gerlach crunched the carbon dioxide numbers from earlier studies of...
  • 1990 IPCC Predictions Confront the Data

    06/11/2011 10:20:19 AM PDT · by Brad from Tennessee · 14 replies
    Clive Best climate blog ^ | June 9, 2011 | CLIVE BEST
    The latest global temperature measurements are available for both satellite data [3] and for the Hadley CRU temperature data [2], so I thought it would be interesting to compare these with the predictions made in 1990 by the first IPCC report. There is now sufficient data to test whether the GCM modeling of greenhouse gases used by the IPCC really matches up to reality. . .CO2 levels in the atmosphere have continued to rise over the last 10 years but temperatures have not risen since 2000. This implies that CO2 is not the main driver of global temperatures on these...
  • Melting icebergs fertilize ocean

    05/18/2011 4:42:07 PM PDT · by PROCON · 10 replies
    sciencenews.org ^ | May 16, 2011 | Janet Raloff
    Efforts to remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere appear to be getting a helping hand from a surprising source: the iron in meltwater from Antarctic icebergs. Icebergs calving off of Antarctica are shedding substantial iron — the equivalent of a growth-boosting vitamin — into waters starved of the mineral, a new set of studies demonstrates. This iron is fertilizing the growth of microscopic plants and algae, transforming the waters adjacent to ice floes into teeming communities of everything from tiny shrimplike krill to fish, birds and sometimes mammals.
  • EPA: Jobs Don't Matter

    04/18/2011 5:34:41 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | April 18, 2011 | Staff
    Jobs: The EPA admits to Congress that it does not take into account the impact of its regulations on employment, the economy or international competitiveness. Neither, apparently, does the White House. This stunning revelation was made by EPA Administrator Mathy Stanislaus in response to a question by Colorado GOP Rep. Cory Gardner. It came during Stanislaus' testimony before the House Environment and Energy Committee on Thursday and exposes the Obama administration's public posture on jobs and the environment as a fraud. Gardner was asking about an EPA regulation that would govern industries that recycle coal and ash and other fossil...
  • MORE RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS LEADS TO AN INCREASE IN CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2)EMISSIONS

    04/07/2011 4:17:19 PM PDT · by TonyfromOz · 3 replies
    PA Pundits International ^ | 07 April 2011 | TonyfromOz
    This analysis of data collected over 12 months proves conclusively that with this mad rush to construction and use or renewable power, emissions of CO2 are in fact increasing, which is the opposite of what we are told will happen. Total electrical power consumption increased by 4.7%, and yet CO2 emissions increased by 7%, in both the coal fired sector, and the natural gas fired sector as well. With the huge ramping up in construction of wind plants, renewable power only increased from 1.89% to 2.32%. Emissions rose by 201 million tons to 3.27 Billion tons.
  • Unions Join In Challenging EPA

    03/17/2011 4:52:18 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | March 17, 2011 | Staff
    Regulation: Worried about job losses, Big Labor is demanding that the EPA soften new rules aimed at pollution associated with coal-fired power plants. They want to save their jobs, not the environment. It was one thing when those greedy tools of the rich, Republicans and conservatives, stood in opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as well as its tightening of ozone and mercury standards in violation of sound science and congressional intent. After all, they were interested only in ravaging the earth for fun and profit. Now unions and some of the...
  • Stop EPA's Energy Tax

    02/10/2011 7:28:11 PM PST · by raptor22 · 11 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | February 10, 2011 | IBD staff
    Federal Authority: At a contentious hearing on legislation to keep the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, Republicans rightly called global warming a power-grabbing hoax that is all pain for no gain. The assertion came at a Wednesday hearing before the House subcommittee on energy and power on the "Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011." The measure is designed to reassert the authority of Congress to levy taxes on the American people and direct public policy — powers that are being usurped by the unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency. In a power grab that rivals ObamaCare...
  • Gore's Unending Blizzard Of Lies

    02/03/2011 3:56:25 PM PST · by Kaslin · 16 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | February 3, 2011 | Staff
    Hoaxes: As the nation digs itself out, the grand wizard of global warming comes out of hiding and blames it all on that SUV stuck in your driveway. A blizzard is a terrible thing to waste. What has been dubbed the Groundhog Day Blizzard has caused Al Gore to poke his head out of his massive carbon-generating mansion in Nashville, Tenn., to blame the 2,000-mile storm on our alleged obsession with fossil fuels. Sorry, Al, but in Chicago the solar panels were buried under upward of two feet of snow as citizens cranked up those polluting snow blowers, a scene...
  • Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan farmer's study says

    01/11/2011 11:03:34 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 69 replies
    The Canadian Press ^ | 01/11/2011 10:22 AM | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
    Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan farmer's study says By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world's largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases that were supposed to have been injected permanently underground are leaking out, killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken-up soda pop. Cameron and Jane Kerr, who own nine quarter-sections of land above the Weyburn oilfield in eastern Saskatchewan, released a consultant's report Tuesday that claims to link high concentrations of carbon dioxide in their soil to the 8,000 tonnes of the...
  • Global Warming is Code for Installing the Progressive Agenda

    01/11/2011 10:13:21 AM PST · by kathsua · 6 replies
    Associated content ^ | May 26, 2010 | Snidely Whiplash,
    Last week I wrote an article entitled "The Global Warming Hoax Has Been Totally Exposed." In the article I discussed that some scientists, and award winning ones too, have expressed fears that global cooling is the real danger to our species, and based on history and current climate data, it is coming. I am not here to present evidence that global cooling is actually occurring. I am here instead to try and explain how the false mantra of global warming is a political effort by progressives. Here is the historical progression:
  • Californians to Be Scam Victims

    01/11/2011 10:08:08 AM PST · by kathsua · 4 replies
    Associated content ^ | Jan. 9, 2011 | Reason McLucus,
    Californians are about to become victims of what Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls "the greatest scam in history". A recent decision by the California Air Resources Board means they are going to be forced to pay higher energy prices so greedy financial interests can profit by trading what they call "carbon credits". European carbon traders have even found a way to profit by defrauding European governments of taxes associated with carbon trading.
  • EPA Messes With Perry's Texas

    12/28/2010 7:21:01 PM PST · by raptor22 · 47 replies · 6+ views
    Investor's Business DaIly ^ | December 28, 2010 | IBD Staff
    Regulation: The federal agency declares Texas unfit to regulate its own greenhouse gas emissions and seizes control of the permitting process. Jobs, states' rights and the 2012 presidential election are all involved. While most of America was unwrapping their Christmas presents, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was staring at a lump of coal the Environmental Protection Agency put in his state's stocking. Actually, it wasn't a lump of coal — that causes global warming. And Santa won't be coming down any Texas chimney unless he checks with the EPA first. Two days before Christmas, EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz, in a...
  • N.M. Regulators Decide on Emissions Cap (Last gasp of the Richardson administration)

    12/06/2010 7:25:01 PM PST · by CedarDave · 9 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | December 6, 2010 | AP
    New Mexico regulators have decided to approve an environmental group's proposal for capping greenhouse gas emissions statewide. The Environmental Improvement Board voted 4-1 during a meeting Monday in Santa Fe. The petition from New Energy Economy forces polluters to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 3 percent per year from 2010 levels. It would become effective in 2013.
  • Los Gatos green cement manufacturer to test product in Santa Cruz

    12/04/2010 11:21:38 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 37 replies · 1+ views
    The San Jose Mercury News ^ | December 3, 2010 | Kurtis Alexander
    SANTA CRUZ -- The Los Gatos startup that pledged to turn greenhouse gas into cement has landed its first job: a sidewalk in the city of Santa Cruz. While a relatively small project, the 400-foot walkway off Morrissey Boulevard will serve as a big test for plans by the environmentally minded Calera Corp. to capture carbon dioxide exhaust from the Moss Landing Power Plant and fashion it into commercially viable construction materials, like cement. "We're at the point where we want to start using our materials in the built-in environment," said Martin Devenney, vice president of materials development at Calera....
  • The Climate Cash Cow

    11/19/2010 5:41:27 PM PST · by Kaslin · 7 replies · 1+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | November 19, 2010 | Staff
    Hoaxes: A high-ranking member of the U.N.'s Panel on Climate Change admits the group's primary goal is the redistribution of wealth and not environmental protection or saving the Earth. Money, they say, is the root of all evil. It's also the motivating force behind what is left of the climate change movement after the devastating Climate-gate and IPCC scandals that saw the deliberate manipulation of scientific data to spur the world into taking draconian regulatory action. Left for dead, global warm-mongers are busy planning their next move, which should occur at a climate conference in relatively balmy Cancun at month's...
  • It's Time To Pardon Carbon -- CO-2's bad rep is undeserved.

    11/10/2010 10:12:58 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 15 replies
    Forbes ^ | 10.28.10, 12:00 PM EDT | Larry Bell,
    It's high time we recognize that carbon dioxide has been treated unfairly. Not only have the good deeds of that wonderful molecule so essential to rain forests, begonias and plants that feed God's creatures been ignored, it has even come to be demonized as an endangering pollutant and climate-ravaging menace. What real evidence has been offered up to support these defamatory charges? Absolutely none. Take the EPA's CO-2 endangerment finding, for example. Shrouded under the ever- expanding blanket of the Clean Air Act, it is being applied to validate an unprecedented regulatory takeover of carbon-emitting energy and construction industry permitting....
  • Cap-And-Trade On Ice

    07/26/2010 6:07:51 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | July 26, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Energy Policy: Senate Democrats have shelved job-killing cap-and-trade legislation, at least for now. Neither the political nor the Earth's climate suggests it's a good time to try to fool Mother Nature or the American people. After a Thursday meeting with Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has apparently dropped plans to pursue cap-and-trade before the August recess. He doesn't have the votes to overcome a GOP filibuster, and saving the earth from a phantom threat stands way below jobs on Americans' wish list. But watch out after November. "What he suggested is that we move forward on several bills...
  • Changing The Climate In California

    06/25/2010 5:21:24 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 17 replies · 1+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | June 25, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Regulation: An initiative to suspend California's draconian climate law has qualified for the November ballot. The people can now choose between jobs and junk science and fight hot air at the ballot box. Thomas Jefferson once said that when people fear the government, there is tyranny, but when government fears the people, there is liberty. And right now there are politicians and bureaucrats in Sacramento who are at least very concerned. An initiative to suspend Assembly Bill 32 officially qualified for the ballot last week by gathering more than 800,000 signatures, far more than the 433,971 required. Those who signed...
  • Cap-And-Trick

    06/16/2010 4:27:26 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 14 replies · 511+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | June 16, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Energy Policy: President Obama says the oil disaster proves the need to get off fossil fuels. But before we save the planet, let's save the Gulf and stop exploiting crises to deny America the energy it needs. Saving the planet is nice, but just how do we plug the hole again? With an abundance of hand gestures, the president didn't really say in his speech Tuesday night. He did say fossil fuels were bad and green energy is good, but the people of the Gulf states don't need wind turbines right now. Contrary to Obama's assertions, our "addiction" to foreign...
  • Cap-And-Traitors

    06/11/2010 5:46:01 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 26 replies · 789+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | June 11, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Politics: The Senate just claimed the title of the world's most delusional body by refusing to strip unelected EPA bureaucrats of the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. This was the day freedom died. One wonders why we have a Congress at all. The 53 profiles in cowardice that could not get a cap-and-tax bill through the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to let the Environmental Protection Agency keep the unprecedented power Congress did not expressly give it. It is power that the EPA arrogated to itself through regulation to control every aspect of the American economy and our...
  • Senate rejects move to block greenhouse gas regs

    06/10/2010 1:44:10 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 68 replies · 3,088+ views
    AP ^ | 6/10/10 | JIM ABRAMS
    The Senate has rejected a bid to stop the Obama administration from imposing regulations on greenhouse gases, giving a boost to President Barack Obama as he pursues broader clean energy legislation. Senators turned back a resolution that would have rescinded the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Supporters of the measure, mostly Republicans, argued that the EPA had usurped the authority of Congress to set climate policy and that the EPA regulations would increase energy costs and kill jobs.
  • Stopping The EPA's Power Grab

    06/09/2010 5:23:06 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies · 359+ views
    IBD Editorial ^ | June 9, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Overregulation: The Senate votes on blocking a government bureaucracy from usurping power never delegated to it by Congress. This administration may put Copenhagen above the Constitution, but we the people have other plans. The GOP's 1994 "Contract with America," a gift that keeps on giving, hopefully will rescue us once again from the clutches of an unelected bureaucracy, the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been allowed by the Supreme Court to regulate every breath we take and every machine we operate. When cap-and-tax legislation was introduced in Congress, the Obama administration threatened that if Congress failed to act, the EPA...
  • Are You Ready For Global Cooling?

    05/21/2010 5:37:27 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 42 replies · 1,242+ views
    Investors.com ^ | May 21, 2010 | Investor's Business Daily Staff
    Climate Science: Noted scientists at a Chicago climate conference declare that global warming is not only dead, but that the planet faces a big chill for decades to come. What about those frozen wind turbines? It's not exactly Copenhagen or Kyoto, but the 700 scientists attending the fourth International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, had some chilling news of their own in the most liberal sense. "Global warming is over — at least for a few decades," Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told the gathering. "However, the bad news is that...
  • Kerry's Powerless America Act

    05/12/2010 5:31:53 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 31 replies · 1,069+ views
    Investors.com ^ | May 12, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
    Regulations: Call it cap-and-trade or bait-and-switch, but John Kerry and Joe Lieberman continue to tilt at windmills with a bill to restrain energy growth in the name of saving the planet.IBD Exclusive Series: American Freedom And Prosperity Under AttackThe bill introduced Wednesday and sponsored by the two senators is called the American Power Act, an Orwellian phrase if ever there was one. Like President Obama's offshore drilling program, for every "incentive" there is a restriction. It's as if Hamlet were to be appointed Secretary of Energy. The legislation has little to do with developing America's vast domestic energy supply. It's...
  • Are CO2 Regulations via Executive Order Next?

    04/06/2010 8:04:58 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 22 replies · 610+ views
    NRO/Planet Gore ^ | April 6, 2010 | Greg Pollowitz
    Pollution Control: From cars to coal mines, the imposition of economy-killing restrictions is under way. Are the new EPA regulations on auto emissions the precursor to regulating carbon dioxide by executive order? In announcing the Environmental Protection Agency's first regulations on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars, Administrator Lisa Jackson has promised they won't be the last such rules stemming from the EPA's "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide, six pounds of which every human being exhales every day, is a dangerous pollutant.
  • (Obama's) Backdoor Energy Tax

    04/05/2010 4:18:33 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 20 replies · 983+ views
    Investor's.com ^ | April 5, 2010 | Editorial staff
    Pollution Control: From cars to coal mines, the imposition of economy-killing restrictions is under way. Are the new EPA regulations on auto emissions the precursor to regulating carbon dioxide by executive order? In announcing the Environmental Protection Agency's first regulations on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars, Administrator Lisa Jackson has promised they won't be the last such rules stemming from the EPA's "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide, six pounds of which every human being exhales every day, is a dangerous pollutant. "These are the first regulations that cover greenhouse gas emissions in the United States," Jackson told reporters in...
  • France Backs Away From Carbon Tax

    03/24/2010 4:55:16 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 17 replies · 710+ views
    Investors.com ^ | March 24, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSNESS DAILY Staff
    Environmental Regulations: While U.S. politicians try to keep the idea alive here, the French have announced cancellation of their version of cap-and-trade. They say it will hurt their competitiveness. Vive la France. Moments of crisis concentrate the mind wonderfully, or at least they should. In France, as public-sector workers mount a nationwide strike and fallout continues from the ruling party's heavy defeat in regional elections, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has indicated that his government will abandon plans to introduce a domestic carbon tax. "We have to amplify measures that help reinforce the competitiveness of our economy," Fillon told the Reuters...
  • EPA Replaces We The People

    03/16/2010 8:43:05 AM PDT · by raptor22 · 10 replies · 707+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 16, 2010 | IBD editorial staff
    Regulation: The New York Times says the EPA should use its authority to regulate our very breath if a Democratic Congress isn't "goaded" into action. Whatever happened to government of the people? It's been a pattern of this administration that if the American people are adamantly opposed to it, ram it through anyway. So it's been with the health care overhaul, offshore drilling restrictions and now the Environmental Protection Agency threatening to become the uber-regulator of the air we breathe. (snip) As Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, noted: "Lisa Jackson, Obama's...
  • Climate 'fix' could poison sea life

    03/16/2010 4:45:48 AM PDT · by chorizo2 · 8 replies · 451+ views
    BBC News ^ | 16 March 2010 | Richard Black
    Fertilizing the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found. Nevertheless, one company - Climos - aims to deploy the technique on a commercial basis over perhaps 40,000 sq km of ocean, drawing money from the carbon market.
  • We, The <strike>People</strike>

    03/15/2010 5:31:24 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies · 362+ views
    Investors.com ^ | March 15, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Regulation: The New York Times says the EPA should use its authority to regulate our very breath if a Democratic Congress isn't "goaded" into action. Whatever happened to government of the people? It's been a pattern of this administration that if the American people are adamantly opposed to it, ram it through anyway. So it's been with the health care overhaul, offshore drilling restrictions and now the Environmental Protection Agency threatening to become the uber-regulator of the air we breathe. The New York Times says in a Saturday editorial regarding that last item that if Congress fails to enact cap-and-trade...
  • The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide

    03/10/2010 12:30:14 AM PST · by neverdem · 36 replies · 1,063+ views
    Watts Up With That ^ | March 8, 2010 | David Archibald
    The greenhouse gasses keep the Earth 30° C warmer than it would otherwise be without them in the atmosphere, so instead of the average surface temperature being -15° C, it is 15° C. Carbon dioxide contributes 10% of the effect so that is 3° C. The pre-industrial level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 ppm. So roughly, if the heating effect was a linear relationship, each 100 ppm contributes 1° C. With the atmospheric concentration rising by 2 ppm annually, it would go up by 100 ppm every 50 years and we would all fry as per the...
  • Will Californians Repeal Cap-And-Trade?

    01/15/2010 5:33:08 PM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies · 903+ views
    Investors.com ^ | January 15, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Regulations: A California legislator pushes a November ballot initiative to free the state from the job-killing shackles of a 2006 law designed to fight climate change. The other choice is freezing in the unemployment line. At last report, California's unemployment rate was 12.3%, with 2.25 million residents looking for work. So one would assume the first rule of holes would apply — when you're in one, stop digging. Yet there was Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touting his state's green initiatives in Copenhagen as California barrels toward full implementation of its own version of job-killing cap-and-trade. "The desire and hope and desperate...
  • Southern Winds Help Stash Earth's Carbon Dioxide

    01/07/2010 5:24:50 PM PST · by neverdem · 14 replies · 692+ views
    ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 7 January 2010 | Phil Berardelli
    Enlarge ImageIn and out. Driven by winds, the Southern Ocean's currents (blue globe) transport CO2 (red) northward.Credit: T. Ito et al., Nature 463 (2010) Much of the carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere goes south, literally. Researchers using new supercomputer models have described for the first time how the Southern Ocean sucks the greenhouse gas out of the air and then shuttles it into the deep sea far from the Antarctic. The findings should give climate scientists a better understanding of this critical component of Earth's carbon cycle. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere ends up several places....
  • The CO2 Lie

    01/05/2010 5:39:55 PM PST · by Kaslin · 28 replies · 2,369+ views
    Investors.com ^ | January 5, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Climate Change: A new study shows that Earth's ability to absorb carbon dioxide from all sources, including man, has remained unchanged for 160 years. As it turns out, there may be no carbon to offset. A major tenet of the global warming religion, straight from the Book of Gore, has been that the ability of the earth to handle increasing CO2 emissions is finite and that once the "tipping point" is reached, the earth will warm uncontrollably. Well, another climate domino has fallen — the myth that man-made CO2 is leading to climate catastrophe. This "settled science" has been upended...
  • No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds

    01/01/2010 9:44:47 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 35 replies · 1,506+ views
    Science Daily ^ | Dec. 31, 2009
    ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
  • New research: No rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160yrs

    12/31/2009 11:47:45 AM PST · by BROKKANIC · 20 replies · 941+ views
    science daily ^ | 12-31-2009 | science daily
    Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
  • Food Vs. Trees

    12/30/2009 5:22:44 PM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies · 607+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | December 30, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which...
  • Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing?

    12/30/2009 2:38:29 PM PST · by decimon · 6 replies · 494+ views
    University of Bristol ^ | Nov 2009 | Wolfgang Knorr
    Several recent studies have highlighted the possibility that the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems have started loosing part of their ability to sequester a large proportion of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. > It is shown that with those uncertainties, the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, i.e. close to and not significantly different from zero. >
  • Congressional Candidate Schiffer Seeks Repeal on Carbon Dioxide Law

    12/30/2009 5:33:34 AM PST · by Moseley · 22 replies · 911+ views
    THE VOICE Magazine ^ | December 30, 2009 | Jennifer LeClaire
    Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, has already written legislation to repeal last Monday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling carbon dioxide a "pollutant." Paul Schiffer pledged to introduce and fight for this repeal in January 2011 after being elected in November 2010. "All life on earth depends on carbon dioxide. Plants breathe carbon dioxide as the lifeblood of plant growth. Animals cannot exist without plants for food. Carbon dioxide is a harmless, colorless, odorless part of the air that nourishes plants,” Schiffer said. “The EPA's decision makes as much sense as calling...
  • Five Decades Of Cooling Ahead

    12/24/2009 3:44:23 PM PST · by raptor22 · 86 replies · 4,041+ views
    Investors.com ^ | December 24, 2009 | INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY staff
    Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word...
  • Legislation to REPEAL EPA Regulation of Carbon Dioxide by Paul Schiffer Candidate

    12/18/2009 7:38:30 AM PST · by Moseley · 14 replies · 576+ views
    Christian News Wire ^ | December 18, 2009 | Paul Schiffer
    CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, has already written legislation to repeal last Monday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling carbon dioxide a "pollutant." Paul Schiffer pledged to introduce and fight for this repeal in January 2011 after being elected in November 2010. Schiffer's legislation would leave in place all regulation of genuine pollution but exclude carbon dioxide from the definition of a pollutant in all Federal laws. This would strip the EPA of authority to regulate the carbon dioxide which plants breathe. It would also...
  • Climate Change is Natural: 100 Reasons Why

    12/15/2009 10:03:03 AM PST · by ezfindit · 54 replies · 1,807+ views
    Daily Express ^ | 12/15/2009 | Dan Parkinson
    Here are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made: 1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity. 2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history. 3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels. 4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2...
  • Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel

    12/11/2009 5:16:33 PM PST · by LibWhacker · 20 replies · 1,074+ views
    ScienceDaily ^ | 12/11/09
    ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis.
  • Hope Floats (EcoNut Stages Protest in DC Reflecting Pool, Claims "CO2 Kills")

    12/10/2009 11:47:23 AM PST · by Reaganesque · 31 replies · 840+ views
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